Category: Front Page
SMART News: BE4ALL toy drive serves families in need, spreads awareness of unionized sheet metal careers
SMART sheet metal locals across the country mobilized for the first-ever Belonging and Excellence for ALL (BE4ALL) toy drive in December 2022, which served the dual purpose of distributing gifts to those in need and spreading the word about our union’s best-kept secret: the b [...]
Washington SMART apprentice works to ensure indoor air quality in schools
As temperatures drop during cold and flu season, and Covid infections continue to pose public health challenges, it’s more important than ever to have proper ventilation in schools, offices and other buildings – and SMART sheet metal members are the highly skilled workers wit [...]
SMART Union Renews Call for Rail Industry Changes After Ohio Derailment
Phone: (216) 228-9400 Fax: (216) 228-0411 Direct email: bnagy@smart-union.org Department email: news_td@smart-union.org “As long as it is more profitable to clean up a disaster than to prevent one, these Wall Street-dri [...]
SMART News: Infrastructure investment, pro-labor politicians create jobs for members in Connecticut
From episode 5 of SMART News: Unprecedented infrastructure investment continues to create jobs for SMART sheet metal workers across the country. That includes Connecticut, where a project labor agreement is putting SMART Local 40 sheet metal members to work at Bradley International Airport.
SMART statement on President Biden’s 2023 State of the Union address
President Biden delivered his second State of the Union address on February 7, 2023 – outlining the ways in which the Biden administration’s economic plan is delivering results for working families. SMART issued the following statement in response: “On the campaign trail and [...]
Hudson Tunnel project to create more than 70,000 jobs in New York and New Jersey
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is infusing $292 million into the completion of the Hudson Tunnel modernization project, which will rehabilitate the old North River Tunnel connecting New York and New Jersey, build a new tunnel and improve reliability for the 200,000 passengers who traverse the tunnel each weekday.
B&P Tunnel replacement project in Baltimore promises jobs, better conditions for SMART members
The Civil War-era tunnel will be replaced by the brand-new Frederick Douglass Tunnel. Not only will this save commuters time on the largest rail bottleneck between Washington, DC and New Jersey; thanks to a new project labor agreement (PLA), both SMART sheet metal workers and SMART Transportation Division members working at Amtrak stand to benefit for years to come.
EPI study estimates money lost by misclassified workers
A new analysis by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) estimates that misclassified construction workers lose out on as much as $16,729 per year in income and job benefits compared with what they would have earned as employees.